Secure Covers durable woven mesh blanket eliminates the need for tires when covering a bunker silo. Unlike plastic held down by tires, the wind doesn’t lift it up, maintaining the proper environment for silage fermentation. Bag Armour™ protects your valuable silage bags. Don’t Let Your Farm Become A Breeding IH “Disgusted” Ground For West Nile Virus! No tires are needed for covering a bunker from hail, birds, animals, and much more. Shift Kits silo with Secure Covers. Just lay down the Depending on where your damage is occur- plastic sheet but instead of covering it with ring, Bag ArmourTM can cover your bag in “If your older IH tractor sometimes slips tires, roll out the tear resistant mesh. As two different ways. Crown Coverage covers out of gear or does not go into gear, or farming practices have moved away from the top portion of the bag providing excellent if you’re just frustrated with the way it using upright silos to store their ensiled corn protection from birds and hail. Ground to shifts, we can probably help,” says Otto silage and haylage, concrete bunker silos and Ground Coverage covers all exposed sides Wenz of Wenz Service, Inc. “We had drive over piles have become increasingly of the bag preventing deer and other animals some of the same problems with our popular. The standard on most farms is to from damaging the plastic lower on the bag. own tractor and fi gured out a way to fi x cover their piles and bunkers with plastic Bag ArmourTM is simple, effective insurance it that worked better than anything we sheeting and used tires. A typical 50’x100’ for your valuable feed. A 9’ x 200’ bag can could fi nd. bunker silo could use as many as 500 tires. hold 8500 bushels of high moisture corn. At “We now offer complete kits to solve These unsightly tires can hold standing water $7.00 per bushel, that bag is worth $59,000. shifting problems for IH models from the and become a magnet for mosquito popula- Looking at the value of your feed, especially 706 up to the 6788. Most of the problems tions that transmit the West Nile Virus and this year, even a small amount of damage with these tractors come from the gears in other diseases. Secure Covers eliminate the can be costly! the transmission not being fully engaged. need for unsightly, water logged tires all Secure Gravel Bags are the ideal way to Different tractors need different parts, so while reducing feed spoilage. weigh down your Secure Covers and Bag while we do have complete repair kits, Secure Covers are the leading tire-less ArmourTM. Made from the same material we’d prefer to sell only the parts needed. covering system in the United States. In- Secure Covers, Secure Gravel Bags also For this reason, farmers or their mechanics stead of using tires to hold down the plastic have a 10 year UV warranty. Secure Gravel should call for parts and prices. sheeting, the system incorporates sections Bags are 3 feet in length when fi lled to 30lbs “All of our transmission repair parts are of durable, high density polyethylene mesh, with gravel and fi t tightly into a bunker edge guaranteed. We guarantee the ’06 series held down on the seams and perimeter by Se- reducing spoilage by creating a tighter seal parts for the life of our business. Kits for cure Gravel Bags. Jim Kautz, Bag Man LLC, than tires can provide. They intelligently most other models come with a 10-year US Distributor for Secure Covers explains, use weight where it is most effective on a guarantee. We’ve been in business for “They were developed in England to prevent bunker or pile to create tension therefore more than 50 years and have sold more bird damage but as an added benefi t, farmers only requiring weight on the perimeters than 5,000 of these kits over the past 33 found that they no longer needed to use tires and seams. This tension across the surface years. The cost of repairs with our kits to hold the plastic down and the quality of prevents air from entering under the plastic are usually less than half the cost of using the feed increased”. Secure Covers effec- sheeting along with reducing the labor time parts from Case IH. tively disperse wind velocity holding the needed to lug 100’s or 1,000’s of tires onto “In addition to IH transmission repair plastic sheeting closer to your feed creating a bunker. Secure Gravel Bags have three parts, we also sell a number of new after- a tighter seal, which in turn reduces spoilage. handle options to choose from to make them market parts for almost any make of The material is strong enough to protect the most convenient for you. tractor. Our parts cost a lot less than most plastic sheeting from hail damage, prevent The Secure Cover System for covering places for most brands. We usually can or deter animals from puncturing holes and bags, bunkers, or piles can be purchased all analyze the problem over the phone, so comes with an industry leading 10 year at once or added to over time as a producers that you can make an informed decision. warranty against UV breakdown. Secure budget sees fi t. The 10 year warranty en- We ship all over the world.” Covers are the easy way to eliminate tires sures product longevity and excellent forage Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, and problems that come with them. protection for years to come. Otto Wenz, Wenz Service, Inc., 1606 L Do you store your feed in bags instead? Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bag Street, Tekamah, Neb. 68061-1289 (ph Not to worry! Bag ArmourTM, made from Man LLC, P.O. Box 162, Hammond, WI 402 374-2202) (Let it ring!) the same material as Secure Covers and are 54015 (ph 800-796-5333 or www.afsbag- cut to sizes that will fi t any size and brand man.com). Reader Inquiry No. 53 of silage or grain bag. This material gives you excellent protection against damage Reader Inquiry No. 54

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